Morning mail: Spain in crisis after ballot violence Monday: Uproar in Catalonia after national police try to shut down referendum declared illegal by Madrid. Plus: Storm revel in NRL grand final triumph Crowds confront police in Catalonia. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images Eleanor Ainge Roy @EleanorAingeRoy Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 2 October. Top stories Hundreds of people have been injured after Spanish riot police stormed referendum voting stations in Catalonia on Sunday. The mayor of Barcelona has called for the Spanish prime minister to resign after reports of police firing rubber bullets at people trying to vote in a referendum declared illegal by Spanish authorities, with the number of injured rising to more than 700. Although many Catalans managed to cast their ballots, others were forcibly stopped from voting as schools housing ballot boxes were raided by the national police. A school in Barcelona was the scene of a sustained operation, with witnesses describing police using axes to smash their way in, charging the crowds and firing rubber bullets. The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, told crowds the "police brutality will shame the Spanish state for ever". Senior Spanish government officials said their operation had been conducted "professionally", while EU leaders have reacted cautiously. Guardian contributor Giles Tremlett said the ugly events in Catalonia suggested Spain had "lurched into a moment of deep crisis". Follow the unfolding events on our live blog. Melbourne Storm are celebrating after their 34-6 thrashing of North Queensland in the NRL grand final, which secured their third premiership after a dominant season. The stats told the tale: Melbourne made 335 more metres, four more line breaks and 10 more offloads than their northern counterparts. "There's no fairytales in rugby league, all there is [is] working really hard and results go your way," said Cooper Cronk, who was playing his last game for the Storm. The future of Clive Churchill medal winner Billy Slater is also still in doubt, but Slater says he will make a decision on his retirement "soon". Catch up with the best images from a game that ended an era for the Storm and began with an emotional plea for marriage equality from the rap star Macklemore. Australian Electoral Commission figures show the 98,000 new enrolments after the same-sex marriage postal survey was announced were disproportionately made up of young voters, women and inner-city residents. In a potential boon for the yes campaign, electorates that strongly support marriage equality recorded the highest number of enrolments. GetUp data analyst Ben Raue said the new figures "fit with a pattern we're seeing that supporters of marriage equality really care about voting in the survey". A man has fatally stabbed two women at the main train station in the French city of Marseille in what is thought to be an act of terrorism. French soldiers on patrol shot the man dead on Sunday afternoon, and prosecutors have opened an investigation into "killings linked to a terrorist organisation". The attacker, who was reported to be in his 30s, is thought to be known to police for criminal offences. The soldiers who shot the attacker were posted at the station as part of Operation Sentinelle, in which combat troops patrol streets and protect key sites. OJ Simpson has been freed from prison after serving a nine-year term for armed robbery. The former American football legend was released from Nevada prison on parole in middle of the night, as state authorities attempted to avoid a media circus surrounding the now aged-ex con, who was found not guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995. State prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast said she had no information about where Simpson was heading or who was meeting him. Simpson's attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, said his client was looking forward to reuniting with his family, eating a steak and some seafood and moving back to Florida. Simpson also plans to get an iPhone and get reacquainted with technology that was in its infancy when he was sent to prison in 2008. Sport India have beaten Australia by seven wickets in the fifth one-day international. Australia managed 243 before Rohit Sharma's blistering century led India to a comfortable win. Australia lost the first three ODIs of the series, but regained some pride with a 21-run win in the fourth match at Bengaluru. A clinical performance from India barely gave the visitors a chance to regain some pride and momentum going into the three-match Twenty20 series, starting on Saturday. Western Sydney Wanderers must begin the search for a new coach after yesterday's shock departure of Tony Popovic to the Turkish club Karabukspor, with the start of the A-League season less than a week away. Former Adelaide United boss Josep Gombau has been mentioned as one of the early contenders. Thinking time Larry David: neurotic Superman. Photograph: 2017 Home Box Office Networks, Its unsexy, unexotic and unstoppably curmudgeonly. But as Curb your Enthusiasm returns for another season, its cast and creators reveal why Larry David is the neurotic Superman we all need (and why he should never have made it as a comic). "He's somebody that knows how to use his life as a goldmine," says cast member Susie Essman. "But if I said in 1986 that Larry David is going to be richer and more successful than any of us, they would've laughed in my face." When John Marsden's series Tomorrow When The War Began came out, some school teachers thought it was too violent, gratuitous and sexual for young readers. But for Alice Pung – a child of refugees who had grown up with friends who had survived real wars – it reflected her life. Teenage readers can handle dark themes in fiction, she writes – particularly with the right guidance. Sarah Perry's mother was murdered a month and a day before Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, and the media's obsession with OJ Simpson made it much harder to cope, she writes. "The end of the OJ Simpson trial didn't make television any safer for me, and America's fascination with true crime narratives only gained momentum from then on. Soon, we had Law & Order: SVU and CSI and Cold Case and others, an endless parade of raped and murdered women to entertain us." What's he done now? Donald Trump's has undermined his secretary of state, saying on Twitter Rex Tillerson is "wasting his time" by conducting talks with North Korea. The outburst threatens to further escalate the North Korea crisis and compromise the nation's top diplomat at a highly sensitive moment. "I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man..." Trump tweeted overnight . "... Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!" Media roundup The Storm's NRL grand final victory dominates the front pages, with the Sydney Morning Herald declaring the win a "perfect storm", the Australian hailing the "Three Amigos' purple glory" and the Courier Mail saying the Storm got the win their "unbelievable season deserved". The Canberra Times says a multipurpose stadium consortium is keen to make Canberra the site for its versatile indoor-outdoor stadium, and says the innovative model can generate enough money in 10 years to cover its costs. The ABC has a fun read on the creation of a biscuit from the farm to the plate (and cuppa). Kooka's Country Cookies factory in Donald, Victoria, employs 28 full-time staff, a significant employer for a town with fewer than 2,000 residents. But it takes significantly more than 28 people to make a single biscuit. Coming up It's a public holiday across most of Australia, but the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, is due back at work with speculation mounting that a state election may be called imminently. Politicians and experts from across the Indo-Pacific, including Julie Bishop and Penny Wong, will speak at a conference in Perth on the sustainable use and conservation of the region's oceans and marine resources. 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